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Amazing Animal Alliterations

Students will learn to write using alliteration. Students learn to create illustrations that support and reflect their writing.

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Language Arts

Character Scrapbook

Character Scrapbook

Students will create a digital scrapbook that showcases the viewpoint of the main character.

Book trailers

Book Trailers

Students will develop a movie-style trailer for a book they have read.

Persuasive and Presidential Writing

Persuasive and Presidential Writing

Students learn persuasive writing and presentation skills.

Create a Visual Poem

Create a Visual Poem

Students will create a visual, or video, poem as they analyze the imagery in a text.

Cool Word Vocabulary

Cool Word Vocabulary

Students will combine text and visuals create visual vocabulary cards with words and photos.

Design a Book Cover

Design a Book Cover

Students create a new cover design for a book they are reading to demonstrate comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict.

Personification Stories

Personification Stories

Students will personify an object and write a story as part of an online book or animated adventure.

Everyday Heroes

Everyday Heroes

Create media resources that celebrate and promote the actions of a real world hero.

Modernize a Fairy Tale

Modernize a Fairy Tale

Students learn about key elements of a fairy tale as they retell a fairy tale in modern times.

Stretching the truth idiom

Idiomatically Speaking

Students will illustrate the meaning of an idiom to help others learn these examples of figurative language.

My Superhero

My Superhero

Students introduce a new hero to the world through an ID card and comic.

ABC

It's ABC, As Easy As 1-2-3!

Students explore initial sounds through the creation of a classroom ABC book.

Notebook

Writing How To's

Students will write how-to stories about getting ready for school and publish them to use at home.


Math

Angles All Around

Angles All Around Us

Students will ientify types of angles in photographs, and write cinquain poems that share the angles they find.

Exploring Line Symmetry

Exploring Line Symmetry

Students will create original artwork and manipulate images to demonstrate understanding of line symmetry.

Now That's a Problem

Now That's a Problem

Students will create their own multiplication word problems.

Tessellation Sensation

Tessellation Sensation

Students will create their own tessellations study the mathematical concepts of patterns, planes, symmetry, and translation.

The 13 Days of Halloween

The 13 Days of Halloween

Students practice counting through the creation of a Halloween counting book.

The Shape of Things

The Shape of Things

Students compose images from shapes, describe their composition, and create their own version of the book, The Shape of Things.

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Plan an Event

Students will plan for an event and create a proposal demonstrating how the event might look and how much it would cost.

Spring into Fractions

Spring Into Fractions

Students write and illustrate a spring-inspired short story including fractions they find in nature or their local community.

Math Terms

Math Terminology

Students will connect math terms with the world around them.


Science

Animal riddle

Animal Riddles

Students will research an animal and create a riddle to showcase their knowledge and engage other students in the natural world.

Soil – Diary of a Worm Comic

Soil - Diary of a Worm

Students create a media campaign to educate about the layers, components, inhabitants, and benefits of soil.

Magical Metamorphosis – Butterfly Life Cycle Stories

Magical Metamorphosis

Students explore the life cycle of a butterfly as they write and illustrate stories that show the stages of a butterfly’s metamorphosis.

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Healthier School Lunches

Students will learn about nutrition and create a sample menu for a week of healthy school lunches.

New creature image

Create a Creature

Students apply what they have learned about animal characteristics and adaptation to create a new creature and introduce it to the scientific community.

image of two polar bears

Design a Polar Park

Students design enclosures for animals that live in the Arctic or Antarctic regions, to reflect what they have learned about animal habitats and characteristics.

image of gardening shed

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Students design a functional and beautiful garden for a particular audience, developing a scale model, determining costs and materials, and creating a guide explaining how to care for the garden.

upcycle icon around the earth

Upcycle

Students design and create upcycled products using materials collected at home and school.

Take a Tour of a Biome

Take a Tour of a Biome

Students learn about the five biomes through as they create a travel brochure.

Design a Rainforest Postcard

Design a Rainforest Postcard

Students develop a clear understanding of rainforest regions globally through research and the creation of postcards.

Visit Our Solar System

Visit Our Solar System

Students will learn about the planets as they create a sample travel journal that explains what it would be like to visit one of the planets.


Social Studies

Map with pins and a magnifying glass.

Virtual Museum

In this lesson, students create an online museum for their community.

cartoon of elephant and donkey fishing

Political Cartoons Then and Now

Students will analyze and share the history of a political cartoon and then create their own cartoon about a current event.

Legends and Tall Tales

Legends and Tall Tales

Students will write and produce an animated tall tale about a historical figure or location.

Map It!

Map It!

Students will demonstrate map making skills as they create maps of the geographic features, regions, and economy of their state.

More sites to help you find success in your classroom

Wixie

Share your ideas, imagination, and understanding through writing, art, voice, and video.

Rubric Maker

Create custom rubrics for your classroom.

Pics4Learning

A curated, copyright-friendly image library that is safe and free for education.

Wriddle

Write, record, and illustrate a sentence.

EDU ToDo

Interactive digital worksheets for grades K-8 to use in Brightspace or Canvas.

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